IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 207248 accession number: M/P.81 & A & B-1913 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 8 December 2015 updated: Tuesday 18 December 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Verge watch in gold enamelled case, set with pearls. MOVEMENT: Full plate movement engraved 'Gregson a Paris', also painted on dial. Balance bridge having pierced and engraved table, and polished steel coquette. Brass balance. Silver regulation dial engraved 'A' and 'R' at end of scale. Plain cock for top pivot of fusee. Plain plate engraved as above. Fusee iron post turned. Case bolt sliding in plate with conical end, nib under dial. Adjustable potance. Counter potance screwed on underside of top plate with polished steel end plate and adjustable screw. Pillar plate with four plain turned pillars. Sunk centre wheel. Third wheel bar. Small raised wall, about 1 mm high, around movement, cut away for joint, case bolt, barrel and dial pillars. Flat surface under dial. Fusee and chain, set-up click under dial, barrel with with one lip. Verge escapement. Train planted anti-clockwise. DIAL: White enamel on copper with gilt edge, counter enamel inscribed '23' and 'R'. Vertical Arabic quarter figures, circle and lines minute ring. Vertical Roman chapters, name painted as above in arc from 7 to 5 o'clock. Winding hole at about 1.50. HANDS: Gold beetle and poker. INNER CASE: Gold, ring of pearls set around bezel an body, band of bezel chased with rope pattern. Back enamelled with dark blue translucent enamel over pattern of turned circles, centre with polychrome painting of Electra and a cherub on a cloud, outside edge with pattern of gold line intertwined with dotted gold line and light blue leaves. Outside circle of chipped holes that once contained diamonds. Inside of case scratched with '2865' and '2950' and case opening scratched '305'. Pendant regular base stamped '157', oval stem, rectangular top stamped 'JM' on top. Wide bow. OUTER CASE (A): Thin gilt metal band with glass back, open bezel. STORAGE BOX (B): Red leather covered formed box with gilt tooling edge to lid, hinged at top. Small rectangular label in base with 'cc\-\-/328' (second 'c' reversed) written on. Inside, the lid is covered in silk, and the base is covered with chamois leather. There is a recess for chatelaine in the middle, with round recess for watch to right and recess the same size to the left. The second recess is with a round paper label with 'Made by/ Pierre Gregson/ who was Watch-/-maker to Louis XVI' ('XVI' between lines), written in ink title: watch LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank Gray Smart creditline: Bequeathed by Frank Gray Smart STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/207248 CATEGORIES ------ category: watches DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Gregson CITATIONS -------- Watches, Their History, Decoration and Mechanism Dictionnaire des Horlogers Français Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_1_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 851 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_1_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 602 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_1_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 851 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_1_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 301 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_2_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 858 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_2_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 597 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_2_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 858 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_2_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 299 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/large_M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_3_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1008 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_3_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 492 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_3_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1009 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_M_P_81_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1913_3_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 246 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/MP_81A_1913.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_MP_81A_1913.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/MP_81A_1913.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_MP_81A_1913.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels